Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of former British prime minister Tony Blair, said that the "concentration camp" of Gaza received less media attention than Darfur.
Has Gaza in fact received less attention? Not just less media attention, but less attention overall?
An internet search for 'Darfur,' shows 16,300,000 results.
[Deaths in Darfur: nearly half a million over the past five years.]
An internet search for 'Gaza,' shows 39,400,000 results.
[Conflict deaths in Gaza: 7007 since 2001.]
Note: The idea for comparing death tolls was taken from an Arutz Sheva article. It dramatically highlights the disparity. There is relevance, and then there is 'relevance'. I got the idea for internet searches from the same article.
Further searches showed a similar pattern:
5,330,000 results for 'Darfur UN'.
9,840,000 results for 'Gaza UN'.
603,000 results for 'AFP Darfur'.
1,380,000 results for 'AFP Gaza'.
1,940,000 results for 'BBC Darfur'.
3,040,000 results for 'BBC Gaza'.
1,350,000 results for 'Reuters Darfur'.
2,790,000 results for 'Reuters Gaza'.
387,000 results for 'Al Jazeera Darfur'.
1,020,000 results for 'Al Jazeera Gaza'.
32,300 results for 'Ha'aretz Darfur'.
361,000 results for 'Ha'aretz Gaza'.
3,690 results for 'Algemeen Dagblad Darfur'.
5,260 results for 'Algemeen Dagblad Gaza'.
19,100 results for 'Volkskrant Darfur'
31,800 for 'Volkskrant Gaza'.
1,050,000 results for 'Guardian Darfur'.
2,040,000 results for 'Guardian Gaza'.
1,610,000 results for 'New York Times Darfur'.
2,800,000 results for 'New York Times Gaza'.
There are two logical conclusions.
The first one is that Lauren Booth is an ignorant and biased woman who neither knows nor cares about the truth. The second one is that each Gazan is worth far, far more than at least fifty Sudanese in the eyes of the world.
One might also think that the killing of Gazans is frowned upon, and the deaths of Sudanese positively welcomed.
But it is probably only people like Lauren Booth who incline that way.
My own personal conclusions are that the world cares too little about Darfur, and that Lauren Booth and her type are evil and vicious.
I would be keen to hear from anyone who knows ms. Booth whether that latter conclusion matches their perception.
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NOTE:
This article is crossposted here:
http://www.bluetruth.net/2008/09/lauren-booth-weeps-over-gaza-not-over.html
I compared the figures for the fatalities in Darfur and Gaza in several places: B'Tselem, The United Nations, various Palestinian and activist websites, etcetera.
The figure for Gaza is based on B'Tselem. I did not include Palestinians killed by other Palestinians, such as the victims of political assassinations by the factions, targeted killings by gangsters such as the Dogmush clan, murdered kidnap victims, or poisonings.
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She's still a bitch.
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